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Nomenclature. Family: MELIACEAE. Other trade relevant species: T. calantas, T. ciliata, T. sureni. Synonym(s): Toona calantas: Cedrela calantas, C. inodora, Toona inodora, T. paucijuga, T. philippinensis; T. ciliata: Cedrela toona, C. velutina, Toona australis; T. sureni: Cedrela celebica, C. febrifuga, C. hainesi, C. sureni, Swietenia sureni, Toona febrifuga, T. hainesi. Further trade and local names: danupra, kalantas, Philippine-cedar, Philippine-mahagany (PH); Indian mahagony, Australian red cedar (AU); surian, limpaga (MY); suren kapar, malapoga (ID); thidkado (MM). Code according to DIN EN 13556: none.
CITES(EU) status of protection. Not protected.
Similar timbers. Easily mistaken for timbers of the closely related genus Cedrela (CITES III).
Geographic distribution. India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka to Australia.
Growth rings, colour, grain, etc. Growth ring boundaries distinct. Heartwood basically brown to red (light to dark reddish brown). Sapwood distinct from heartwood colour. Odour distinct (aromatic like Cedrela odorata). Wood light weight and soft, or of medium weight (0.35–0.55 g/m³). Interlocked grain absent (however, it may occur occasionally but is not a characteristic feature of the timber).
Hardwood vs softwood. Vessels (pores) present (= hardwood).
Vessels (pores). Wood ring-porous, or semi-ring-porous (depending on growth conditions); earlywood pore ring uniseriate (occasionally with short biseriate tracks). Vessels (pores) in multiples; commonly in short (2–3 vessels) radial rows. Vessels medium, or large (50–130 µm in latewood, 300–450 µm in earlywood); few (8–15 in earlywood), or moderately numerous (20–30 in latewood). Tyloses absent. Other deposits in heartwood vessels (pores) present (dark reddish brown, sometimes pale yellow).
Axial parenchyma. Axial parenchyma present; banded. Parenchyma bands exclusively marginal (or seemingly marginal); wide. Other macroscopically visible types of axial parenchyma: diffuse-in-aggregates, vasicentric (hardly visible even with a hand lens).
Rays. Rays narrow. Large rays commonly less than 1 mm high.
Storied structure. Storied structure absent.
Resin canals. Normal resin canals absent (traumatic resin canals in tangential rows can be observed occasionally).
Physical and chemical tests. Heartwood not fluorescent. Water extract fluorescent (yellowish green); colour shade of water extract colourless to brown. Ethanol extract not fluorescent; colour shade of ethanol extract colourless to brown. Splinter burns to full ash; colour of ash bright white.
Additional information. • Transverse section + wood surface. Radial surface, natural size. Transverse section ca. 10x. Toona spp. (Suren, Toon).
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Cite this publication as: ‘Richter, H.G., Gembruch, K., and Koch, G. 2014 onwards. CITESwoodID: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval. In English, French, German, and Spanish. Version: 4th April 2023. www.delta-intkey.com’.
